If parents are prepared to be their kids’ bitches, then shut up about it!

I am at a hawker centre getting my lunch and getting incensed in the process. First this lady quickened her steps to snatch a place in the queue ahead of me. Fair enough. You want to be an annoying pest, be my guest.

Then she kept turning back and gesturing to her daughters about what they wanted to order. She did this at least 3 times! Being like, 15-year-olds, they changed their minds repeatedly. Mind you, the whole time she kept talking over me. It was so pissing. I was this close to asking her to hurry up as she stalled up the queue for a good ten minutes. Later she apologised to another middle aged lady BEHIND me about it. Hellos, does a young, non-parent not count as a human being?! Are you trying to seek some kind of understanding about your bratty kids?!

So her seven plates of wonton noodles were ready and she berated loudly to the same old lady that none of her kids were there to help her carry the plates back, that her kids only knew how be served.

C’mon woman. You are the one who is queuing for your children. Dutifully taking their every order. Changing it whenever their whims decide otherwise. Being a general nuisance to the rest of the world because of your kids when they are more than old enough to get their own food. And now you want sympathy for being at their beck and call! How deluded are you? If anything, such parents have it coming.

Kill me before I become an indulgent, irritating, inane middle aged woman.